Thematic Bible
Ephesians 5:1 (show verse)
Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.
Ephesians 5:2 (show verse)
And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.
Ephesians 5:3 (show verse)
For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,
Ephesians 5:4 (show verse)
neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.
Ephesians 5:5 (show verse)
For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous one (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Ephesians 5:6 (show verse)
Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
Ephesians 5:7 (show verse)
Therefore do not be partakers with them.
Ephesians 5:8 (show verse)
For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light
Ephesians 5:9 (show verse)
(for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),
Ephesians 5:10 (show verse)
proving what is acceptable to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:11 (show verse)
And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
Ephesians 5:12 (show verse)
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done by them in secret.
Ephesians 5:13 (show verse)
But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.
Ephesians 5:14 (show verse)
Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."
Ephesians 5:15 (show verse)
See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Ephesians 5:16 (show verse)
redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
Ephesians 5:17 (show verse)
Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:18 (show verse)
And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,
Ephesians 5:19 (show verse)
speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
Ephesians 5:20 (show verse)
always giving thanks for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Ephesians 5:21 (show verse)
submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.
Ephesians 5:22 (show verse)
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Ephesians 5:23 (show verse)
For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body.
Ephesians 5:24 (show verse)
Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.
Ephesians 5:25 (show verse)
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it,
Ephesians 5:26 (show verse)
that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,
Ephesians 5:27 (show verse)
that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:28 (show verse)
So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Ephesians 5:29 (show verse)
For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.
Ephesians 5:30 (show verse)
For we are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones.
Ephesians 5:31 (show verse)
"For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and shall be joined to his wife, and the two of them shall be one flesh."
Ephesians 5:32 (show verse)
This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.
Ephesians 5:33 (show verse)
But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.